Tenkara Setup in 45 Seconds

Here’s a quick video I shot showing just how fast you can get your tenkara rod set up and ready to fish. Actually, I’m being a bit generous. If you count, it’s really only 43 seconds.

About the author

Jason Klass

Jason is an avid fly angler and backpacker. As a former fly fishing guide originally from Western New York, he moved to Colorado and became an early adopter of tenkara which perfectly suited the small, high altitude streams and lakes there. He has not fished a Western-style fly rod for trout since.

7 Comments

March 19, 2012 at 2:57 pm

TJ Ferreira

Nicely done Jason.

Really like the B/W of the video. Makes it look real cool.

TJ

March 19, 2012 at 3:08 pm

Jason Klass

LOL TJ. That was actually an accident. For done reason the raw footage came out with a weird blue tint I couldn’t get rid of. So I made it black & white to hide it. Glad you like it though!

March 19, 2012 at 4:41 pm

TJ Ferreira

Love B&W. Makes it look old fashioned. 😎

March 19, 2012 at 7:23 pm

Mark Cole

Jason, reminds me of the the time I took out two guys – one from national Trout Unlimited and the other from Field and Stream – looking for greenbacks. We hiked in a couple of miles and while they were rigging up their western gear I took out my tenkara, rigged up, caught a greenback, rigged down and put all the tenkara back in the backback. They were still getting ready to fish. I had only had the Yamame for about a month and half at that point back in 2009. Simplicity is king.

March 19, 2012 at 8:29 pm

Jason Klass

Mark, Nice. That story reminds me of one of the many reasons I love tenkara.

August 28, 2012 at 9:18 pm

Lynn David

So could a speed Tenkara fishing contests come into being? Give three guys a section of stream have them stand streamside, blow a horn and they’re off! First to rig their Tenkara rod, make a cast, net a fish of any size, live-release said fish, de-rig their Tenkara rod (without breaking it) & return to their streamside starting point – wins!

Jason Klass is a former fly fishing guide & casting instructor based in Colorado. He was an early adopter of tenkara in the West and has been fishing the method for a variety of species since 2009. Read more >>